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    lief . The argument from reason , upon which he lays considerable stress ^ turns entirely on the assumption that the sentence passed on the wicked excludes all idea of final restitution , in which case it certainly possesses considerable weight ; for if it would add to the happiness of the blessed in another world to

    recognize there those dear friends to whom they had been attached in this mortal state , in the same proportion must it be alloyed by the non-appearance of many who had been the unworthy objects of their affectionate aud fervent prayers to the throne of grace . But we recommend to his perusal an excellent sermon of Mr . Belsham ' s , entitled , * The Future Life of the Righteous , a Social State . "

    We have next a detailed and elaborat e view of the doctrine of atonement procured by the supposed imputation of the meritorious sacrifice of Christ- On this subject he arrives at no very distinct conclusion .

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    Art . VII . —Heaven Opened $ or the Word of God ; being' the Twelve Visions ofNebuGhadnezzar , Daniel , and St . John . Explained by Alfred Addis , B . A . c < Here is wisdom I—here is the mind , which hath wisdom I" Such is the motto which the author has assumed as

    a fair description of the character of hi » book . In the same spirit of self-complacency he thus expresses himself in the preface : " To the discovery of the name and number of the name of the Apocalyptic Sea-beast of St . John , which we completed on' January the ninth , in the eighteen hundred and twenty-eighth year of the Christian era , after it had

    escaped the ingenuity of near eighteen centuries , this book owes its origin . Since then , we have been employed , with the help of the commentaries of our predecessors , in unravelling the arcana of prophecy ; and this work , benevolent reader , is the result of our labours . We hope that those learned men who have already formed an opinion upon some doctrinal and other

    points concerning which we have thought proper to treat in this volume , may not be so prejudiced against uew lights as to reject , without examination , the opinions of one who is possessed of such good credentials as we are . For if St . John saw heaven opened towards th-e close of the prophetic drama ( Rev . xix . 11 ) to which we are now arrived , it is

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    plain that Heaven must have been before shut ; and if Heaven was to be opened at some time or other , to whom is it more likely that the key of the mysteries of that kingdom should be given , than to that person ( meaning himself ) who , twice in the prophecy of our blessed Lord -W ^ • S J- ^ • « ¦ J ^ X 4 k _

    * . * . ^ ( Rev . xiii . 18 , xvii . 19 ) , is declared to be possessed of the gift capable of opening it ? For if indeed the magicians of Pharaoh have in other respects successfully conreuded with the word of truth yet in the palmary point , concerning which so much is predicated , they have in vain stretched forth the rod of their

    enchantments ; and they must , therefore , at length acknowledge that the finger of God is against them , and Rive up their pretensions to understanding . If the Word of God is ever to come , when more likely to shew itself than by that standing miracle of prophecy , accurately and clearly verified 1 "

    The discovery with respect to the number of the beast upon which these magnificent pretensions are founded , is to write Emperor of the Romans , and Pope , or Holy One of Rome ; in Hebrew thus , Q >» n 1 D > p and >» n ttfiTp ( see p . 239 ) , both of which it seems , when the letters are valued according to the

    Hebrew system of numerals , make up the required number 666 . We remember seeing somewhere a list of about fifty specimens of this sort of ingenuity , any one of which appeared equally plausible with the present , and were doubtless advanced by their respective authors with no less confident assurance that

    theirs was the mind which hath wisdom . The author presents us with a sort of tabular view of what he calls the Seven Eras , or Calendar of the Church of Christ , from which it appears that the papal power is to be abolished , the sanctuary to be cleansed , and the mijlennium

    to commence , m the year 1843 . He would appear a bold prophet to fix so definitely upon a period so near at hand for the accomplishment of his predictions , if it were not highly probable , ( judging not from apocalyptic visions , but from a reference to the fact , ) that even in that short interval he will have

    given way to some other not less mystical imagination , which shall give birth to some new scheme equally fanciful , and destined , as thousands have been before it , to be received with undoubtiutf confidence by a few enthusiasts till the course of events shall have stamped Fool on its forehead .

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    630 Critical Notices . — Theological .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1830, page 630, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2588/page/46/